;
  • Report:  #74084

Complaint Review: Universal Management - Scentura - Rhino Management - World Perfume - Tucson Arizona

Reported By:
- Tucson, Arizona,
Submitted:
Updated:

Universal Management - Scentura - Rhino Management - World Perfume
326 S. Wilmont Suite #B120 Tucson, 85711 Arizona, U.S.A.
Phone:
520-584-0529
Web:
N/A
Tell us has your experience with this business or person been good? What's this?
A friend and I, seen an add in the paper for a management job. We decided to call. Upon calling they set up our interviews. We set up seperate interviews, separate calls made.

They called us in for our first interview. They implied that we were the right kinda people they were looking for. They said they would call us for our second interviews. They did (of course) we were excited to get a chance to join this management team.

So we showed up for our interview, as we were taking our notes, like we were told to, it all seemed so wonderful too good to be true! From us both being 2 former managers, from different management companies things didn't feel right.

So we decided to investigate online, We found this company to be a scam. There are numerous pages of them under different names in different cities and states. They let us know of their prior locations, there for we know they are linked together. They also use the same names.

Under our observations they seem to recruit the youth and the older age groups were told to call back. When calls were returned, no responses were given, long hold times on the phone waiting for a response from the manager (Zach,Johanna,and Cheryl). We thought to ourselves this sounds too good true to be true so we went to the University of Arizona and did research on this "so called" money making company. Turns out this whole thing is a scam and we are going to show up our first day and let everyone know. We will bring what we have as our proof and hopefully get them out of Arizona!

Reanna

Tucson, Arizona
U.S.A.


3 Updates & Rebuttals

Tina

Coats,
North Carolina,
U.S.A.
Universal Management is a SCAM! They do LIE to thier Employees

#2UPDATE EX-employee responds

Sat, January 29, 2005

To the rebuttal from this report, I know for a fact that UNIVERSAL MGMT is a TOTAL SCAM! I worked for them for 4 days and I figured them out! They lied to me and had me sell their cheap, knock off perfume/cologne buy telling me it was the real stuff and even gave me a list with Ralph Lauren, Polo, Liz Claiborne, etc to sell from BEFORE showing me the knock offs I were selling the next day! I wen't out and sold 31 bottles of this cheap stuff to people who trusted me. I had to pay out of my pocket for their lies! I was also put in the parking lot to sell this cheap stuff with the same list I was sent home with so then I quit! Yeah sure, some people will make it in this business: THE KIND OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE NO CONCIENCE THAT CAN CHEAT, LIE AND STEAL FOR A LIVING TAKING PEOPLES MONEY BY TELLING THEM IT IS NAME BRAND PERFUME IN TESTER BOTTLES! So, IF YOU ARE THAT KIND OF PERSON AND YOU ARE NOT SCARED OF GOD THEN GO FOR IT! As for me, I would rather sit at home and have a hell of a time trying to find a job with three kids eating oodles and noodles for supper like I have been doing! To hell with lieing for a living! Some of the employees (actually even Julie, the regional Manager whom was training my group) even told us that once they got started in the business that their own families despised them for it and would not have anything to do with them because they stuck with the business. WHY DO YOU THINK HER OWN FAMILY DISOWNED HER? I tell you it would take a lot for my parents to disown me and WORKING FOR A COMPANY THAT SCAMS PEOPLE AND LIEING FOR A LIVING WOULD DEFINITELY DO IT BECAUSE I WAS NOT BROUGHT UP THAT WAY! Were you?


Jd

Salt Lake City,
Utah,
U.S.A.
The World Perfume and Scentura "are not the same" complete lie

#3UPDATE Employee

Tue, January 20, 2004

I am so very tired of world perfume trying to distance itself from Scentura. World Perfume is almost completly the same--I would estimate 99% the same. They use the same training manuals, they have the same sleezy tactics, and the exact same lies. This is from my soon to be released webpage: "ARE WORLD PERFUME AND SCENTURA THE SAME COMPANY? Because of Scentura's horrible reputation, World Perfume distributors and the headquarters office aggressively attempts to distance itself from any association to Scentura. The fact is that World Perfume and Scentura are two distinct companies, but they have almost exactly the same business models. There training is exactly the same. Read the damning comparison of World Perfume and Scentura training. The President of World Perfume, Johnny Whitworth, worked for Scentura for years as Scentura's top distributor. "A WMI brochure describes the experience of Johnny Whitworth, who is still with Hahn: " He left behind a salary of $150,000, but that didn't bother Johnny. With hard work, enthusiasm, and doing things the "WMI" way, after one year his income hit $600,000." ---WHO WANTS TO BE RICH? LARRY HAHN: FROM SLEEPING IN A CAR TO A $5 MILLION HOME. E. Thomas Jr..Atlanta Business Chronicle, Oct 5, 1987 v10 n19 p1(5) Mr. Whitworth left Scentura to start his own perfume business, World Perfume, in 1994. When he left he took the business model with him and applied it to World Perfume. He also stole the training manuals, which can be clearly seen in the training sessions showing the training sessions are EXACTLY alike. Many distributors have been lured away from Scentura to work for World Perfume. ---------------------------------------------Scentura and World Perfume may not be the same company, but their distributors have almost identical business models: *Sell perfume in parking lots *FFAAR (friends family and relatives) contest *All distributors buy products on consignment *Same fraudulent classified advertising *Same Multi-level marketing scheme *Very similar training, using the same analogies, promises, lies, and acronyms (K.I.S.S. FFAAR, Training=Torture, Fear of Loss, "Drop", P.M.A.=O.P.M. ). --- I am so tired of World Perfume distributors claiming such outrageous and obvious distortions of fact. -- That is why I compiled two daming graphs that clearly show that World Perfume and Scentura are EXACTLY a like. after compilign these graphs, I was surprised myself how simialar these businesses really were. I would like to post them here, but the formation is such that I don't think the would be readable. They can be found at: http://www.geocities.com/scamdocuments/are_world_perfume_and_scentura_same_company.htm and http://www.geocities.com/scamdocuments/world_perfume_vs_scentura_2_experiences.htm


Jesse

Tucson,
Arizona,
U.S.A.
World Perfume and Sunterra Creations are two opposites

#4UPDATE EX-employee responds

Wed, December 24, 2003

After reading up on the internet about World Perfume I was outraged. I was a former employee of Universal Mgmt, and they are not a scam. They were more then just a company for me. My friend joined with them and made it successfully through the training program and does great for himself. I however had not made it because of inability to work as hard as they do. I made a mistake by leaving and wish I could have made it. Sunterra Creations however is the opposite in this business. Yes they are both perfume companies but they are different in honesty and realism. Every thin Zach and Johanna said was absolutly true and real. If they said they were going to give you the opportunity, they did give it. All those people that don't make it are lazy mentality people. If you really want a career and have motivation to do it, you wil go very far in this business. I however, am one of those lazy people, but I don't blame Universal mgmt for my inability to work hard. I blame myself

Reports & Rebuttal
Respond to this report!
Also a victim?
Repair Your Reputation!
//